Game apparatus.



No. 799,785. vPATEN'IBD SEPT. 19', 1905.

` D. PITZPATRIGK.

GAME APPARATUS. APILIUATION FILED JAN. 14. 1905.

www j UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

DANIEL FITZPATRIOK, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO PATRICK J. MCOARTHY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905..

Application filed January 14, 1905. Serial No. 241,112.

.To all whom, it r11/ay concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL FITZPATRIOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a tenpin game, which is played similar to that of the wellknown regulation bowling-alley game, with the exception that my improved game is in miniature form and played with a cue-stick upon a table of special design and of the novel construction and combination of parts as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents a top plan view' of my improved game-table with the balls and pins mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal view of the table, partly7 in section and partly in elevation, taken on line w m of Fig. l and also indicating in dotted lines the relative position of the cue-stick for forcing the balls in contact with the pins. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View taken on line y y of Fig. 2, showing the raised or playing surface of the table, with a channel or ball-raceway at either side thereof. Fig. t is a perspective View of a detachable shield for the rear end of the table. Fig'. 5 represents the players cuestick. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of aquoit disk or ring as used in the game of shuffleboard.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawings.

t designates the body portion of my improved game-table, which is mounted and secured upon suitable legs b b. This table, which is made narrow and of any desired length, has a raised or ball-playing surface a extending longitudinally of the table and termnating at one end with a pocket a2 and at the other end with a pocket a3. At each side of the raised or play-ing surface a of the ta' ble are channels or ball-raceways a4 a5, whose bottom surfaces are located above the level of the pockets c2 a3, as seen in Fig. 2. Surrounding the body portion of the table is a vertical iange nz, whose top edge is above the raised or playing surface a' of the table. The

pocket a2 is formed at the front end of the table for the reception of the balls c c, and for the convenience of the player one corner of the flange a, at the front end of the table, is curved, as at a7, so that the balls which have been acted upon by the player and are made to return in the channel a4 will be deiiected in the arrow direction by this curved portion and enter said pocket a2. material made of felt CZ is secured transversely upon the playing-surface (d of the table and near to its ball-pocket a2 for the purpose of holding a ball c in position thereon until acted upon by the player. The opposite or rear portion of the playing-surface a is'marked with a series of ten spots, as at points as as, and arranged in the same regulation order as on the iioor'of a bowling-alley for the purpose of placing a like number of pins e e in their proper position thereon.

f designates the players cue-stick, which is constructed similar to the cue-stick used in the well-known pool o r billiard games.

To make a shea the player first rests the cue upon the front end iiange a6 of the table in the position indicated by dotted klines in Fig. 2. Thence with a sliding movement he strikes the tip end f of the cue against the ball, which has been placed on the felt material CZ, and this `blow causes the ball to roll upon the surface a and eventually knock over one or more of the pins c into the rear pocket as of the table.

To prevent the balls or pins from flying of the table after a strike has been made, I provide a shield g, constructed as shown in Fig. 4, comprising three walls g g' and g2, which A piece ofare secured by suitable means to hold together in a rigid position. The side walls g g/ have their bottom edges arranged to rest upon the top edges of the side flanges a of the table, while the rear wall g2 of the shield extends from the top of the walls' g to the bottom of the pocket a3, and this shield has two upright strips '/t t, each secured upon the outer surface of the side walls g' of the table and adapted to enter through hasps it, which are secured to the side walls thereof in the manner shown in Fig. 1. This shield g not only serves to prevent the balls and pins from leaving the table when struck, but being detachable allows a player at each end of the table and each player to operate with a quoit or ring j (see Fig. 6) in sliding the same upon z IOO pockets being on a plane below the ball-channels, and one of said channels being rounded adjacent to the pockets to direct the balls in the said pockets, and a shield adapted for removable connection with one end of the table, whereby said table is adapted for a plurality of games.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Witnesses:

WINFRED C. CRANDALL, GEORGE L. FLINT. 

